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Help us build Tails 3.2~alpha1 build reproducibly
by anonym 08 Sep '17

08 Sep '17

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Dear Tails and Tor contributors, dear Reproducible Builds community, We have sent out a first call [1] for testing to build Tails 3.1 reproducibly and we have received some build reports. Thank you very much for your help! We have since then tried to fix most of the identified issues [2] in Tails 3.2~alpha1, and thus we'd kindly like to ask you to try to build the new ISO image again, or even for the first time. Please don't hesitate to contact us if you get stuck at some point in the process, for example by connecting to our chatroom [3]! You can also send us email to tails-dev at boum.org (public) or tails at boum.org (private). Note that Tails 3.2~alpha1 is *not* recommended for real usage, since it has not gone through *any* QA. Please use Tails 3.1 instead until Tails 3.2 is released! # How? For your convenience all instructions needed to attempt to reproduce Tails 3.2~alpha1 are included hereafter. However all commands are adapted for Debian Stretch (and Buster/Sid), so your results may vary if you run another Linux distribution. Our full build instructions [4] might help if you are having problems. ## Setup the build environment Building Tails requires the KVM virtual machine hypervisor to be available, a minimum of 1 GiB of free RAM and a maximum of 20 GB of free storage. ### Install dependencies sudo apt-get install \ git \ rake \ libvirt-daemon-system \ dnsmasq-base \ ebtables \ qemu-system-x86 \ qemu-utils \ vagrant \ vagrant-libvirt \ vmdebootstrap && \ sudo systemctl restart libvirtd ### If building as a non-root user (Skip this section if you intend to build Tails as the root user!) Make sure that the user that is supposed to initiate the build is part of the relevant groups: for group in kvm libvirt libvirt-qemu; do sudo adduser $user $group; done Then run `newgrp` (or just reboot) to apply the new group memberships to the session. ## Build Tails 3.2~alpha1 git clone https://git-tails.immerda.ch/tails cd tails git checkout 3.2~alpha1 git submodule update --init rake build # Send us feedback! No matter how your build attempt turned out we are interested in you sending us feedback. For that we'll first need some information of the system you used -- please run these commands in the exact same terminal session that you ran `rake build` in (e.g. run them right after `rake build`)! sudo apt install apt-show-versions || : ( for f in /etc/issue /proc/cpuinfo do echo "--- File: ${f} ---" cat "${f}" echo done for c in free locale env 'uname -a' '/usr/sbin/libvirtd --version' \ 'qemu-system-x86_64 --version' 'vagrant --version' do echo "--- Command: ${c} ---" eval "${c}" echo done if which apt-show-versions >/dev/null then echo '--- APT package versions ---' apt-show-versions qemu:amd64 linux-image-amd64:amd64 vagrant \ libvirt0:amd64 fi ) | bzip2 > system-info.txt.bz2 Please have a look at the generated file with bzless system-info.txt.bz2 to make sure it doesn't contain any sensitive information you do not want to leak in case you send this file to us or make it public! Next, please follow the instructions below that match your situation! ## If the build failed. Please open a ticket on our bug tracker [5] with "Category" set to "Build system" and `system-info.txt.bz2` attached (note that this makes this file public). ## If the build succeeded ... Please compute the SHA-512 checksum of the resulting ISO image: sha512sum tails-amd64-3.2~alpha1.iso and compare it to: 1c928336264fc44821562f2fffbda4da97dcdc38072fce58f55b749fde04ac60055273cfc021b6c57120c5d276980859ffa3a5b0bd0f9c98851f34b682a09b02 tails-amd64-3.2~alpha1.iso Bonus points if you verify the signed (with: [8]) message containing the checksum below (note that manually inserted line-wraps marked with "`\`"). If you run Tails, the verification is very easy! :) [9] - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 $ sha512sum tails-amd64-3.2~alpha1.iso 1c928336264fc44821562f2fffbda4da97dcdc38072fce58f55b749f \ de04ac60055273cfc021b6c57120c5d276980859ffa3a5b0bd0f9c98 \ 851f34b682a09b02 tails-amd64-3.2~alpha1.iso - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQJDBAEBCgAtFiEEuiwiL0SsAO2YmTiTmP7GvHUqPbYFAlmxqwAPHHRhaWxzQGJv dW0ub3JnAAoJEJj+xrx1Kj22RgAP/0auINj6Y5svR7DfeRF8HxPdnd2Rw/8VIiaM isN3eQoAmNGUtEe50b9VXY+UidCdWtApbZbyZPKFz9ITJOxp0XeSGS8K2+Y0PZIx NSIEYCx2LEWlzY96ivH2B4pboeq2TIzj/VkPLISYGc80CYRT32OzMRkDDcQn+3+Y 2dkGVf1HPvreZ7c7cUfozay4TNPhKrn2p5IZp1jHgpiq8aAYIv5jcubR//lm1W3S Ol/IpTQrxzCShJHzsCh1l6/7zLSx5Dv8ITTEIHTj2OTCsZdAcFnznB4byaHVfVQ0 jSogb+b2J6skNhlsHtX2Jo9xK6Ni9NKsCzYYQ2KgWufC93Cvpmh5J164CqkI/DEd ixe/KbFURP9sTzEL38ExS2DVbMvFvYTmmBmWzvU3USMo0nWfaErye2RIs4yB2pM6 wbsgy1g93tQ49YUU0eKFcoUQLnQpKJmZVsLacdkGpLTn7pL9uHR3AcUnRT27CSzb anzpyLVTllyApU+Suu3f5rJibx9ysmLu8gHp5/Osd54qzSBR9JVrhMTkgJmZnit4 67wuSWJDQgvhMKxRz+zB/z4biORIfyblviR4rv1ZbAfX/ChP25CWUxG9Tgk1Esp0 LMzroJyQNfmy++6GrGuHJ3miRsKwO66ot84GSc5/pN1cJHKYiNa4HQhfb+VZBXbk HoXLV3eR =Hhyr - -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ### ... and the checksums match (i.e. reproduction succeeded). Congrats for successfully reproducing Tails 3.2~alpha1! Please send an email to tails-dev at boum.org (public) or tails at boum.org (private) with the subject "Reproduction of Tails 3.2~alpha1 successful" and attach `system-info.txt.bz2` to it. ### ... and the checksums differ (i.e. reproduction failed). Now you are in a great position to help Tails improve its reproducibility! Please install `diffoscope` [7] version 83 or higher. If you run Debian Stretch, that is: echo 'deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports main' \ | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/stretch-backports.list && \ sudo apt update && \ sudo apt -o APT::Install-Suggests="true" \ -o APT::Install-Recommends="true" \ install diffoscope -t stretch-backports Then download the official Tails 3.2~alpha1 ISO image [6] and compare it to yours: diffoscope \ --text diffoscope.txt \ --html diffoscope.html \ --max-report-size 262144000 \ --max-diff-block-lines 10000 \ --max-diff-input-lines 10000000 \ path/to/official/tails-amd64-3.2~alpha1.iso \ path/to/your/tails-amd64-3.2~alpha1.iso && \ bzip2 diffoscope.* Please send an email to tails-dev at boum.org (public) or tails at boum.org (private) with the subject "Reproduction of Tails 3.2~alpha1 failed" and attach `system-info.txt.bz2` to it. We also want you attach one (the smallest!) of `diffoscope.txt.bz2` and `diffoscope.html.bz2` to the email, but if they are "big" (say >100 KiB) then please don't bomb our mail inboxes! Instead upload the file to some web-based file-sharing service (we recommend RiseUp [10]) and include the link(s) in the email. Thank you very much for your interest and help! Cheers! The Tails project [1] https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2017-August/011591.html [2] https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/13624 https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2017-March/011297.html [3] https://tails.boum.org/support/#talk [4] https://tails.boum.org/contribute/build [5] https://labs.riseup.net/code/projects/tails/issues/new [6] http://dl.amnesia.boum.org/tails/alpha/tails-amd64-3.2~alpha1/ https://mirrors.wikimedia.org/tails/alpha/tails-amd64-3.2~alpha1/ https://mirrors.kernel.org/tails/alpha/tails-amd64-3.2~alpha1/ [7] https://diffoscope.org/ [8] https://tails.boum.org/tails-signing.key [9] https://tails.boum.org/doc/encryption_and_privacy/gpgapplet/decrypt_verify/ [10] https://share.riseup.net/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEEUrafEKOweFrQWvtHHYTM8BDMW8cFAlmxuZIACgkQHYTM8BDM W8fBag/+PlnYIFIfxf4KbPh97Tm9hrNlC6bJp5uTC+6WebBamVsEDekQXnXRzEtF wN4btdFG7MJuLHocSqeiV7gX33A07+KaugqCjQ4NJcVkZ6L9HPK6a1bjn9909EWw l/Cfn0NxaSkfGLhOsk2wFOm2BHU890But+j3bOPOU61JNMVUpwiHUbN2DS1xDK2X ZKE0dlOP3O4TC7kee7rRy6PFUVQx0eQkVW+1qrcusEeHEkc/Z6YzuLmNBdcHJ96m /OfkEi4ygY6l9j0B8z4O/vqPkyeU5VWQWwhhnETvJiSDqs5WNLDuttHOsumP0r29 sluAmicjNoM48mWJHwiyLYnEt5SfFHXOqHXPP1k5YzTOMLRfv/F2eH4Zoq/eI8TM sJy2MO+MgShH8SAOe1vJMBlV9Jqs6t85eToQt+39RFCCn4geyEYlynrk2Ka2hE3n ycn2Qa79nbNK8NJve+1rPZTiJq3lgYyXTYyb8chefKyWm1IsAdY8grS0UIYP44Po KAApudKD75DuCf6qczkOChVeAOcABu63RmAJLnJTYnEwGf7JLJ+KHrCdq0FQQS8s /PulDSSDZo9bhLAHx9tO2T6p2snJfZSf9/dmvM5H+kOlMwzY8GciCgN6wlluwlnU 5WMfAMYT5mhuKIH/WIU5BXlKuUj1MuOi0c64q2MQM2GByJ6SOa8= =6m+4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[release] [protocol] Onionoo 4.1-1.4.1
by iwakeh 31 Aug '17

31 Aug '17

Hi there! Onionoo's protocol was extended and has a minor version jump to 4.1, therefore a new release is available: https://dist.torproject.org/onionoo/4.1-1.4.1/ Protocol changes (also summarized in [0]): * removal of (unused) beta fields in bridge client objects * addition of a new search filter parameter by Tor version, see [1] and [2] for example calls. There were also some internal improvements, which can be found in the changelog [3a]. You might have noticed an increment in the middle and minor application version. This is due to a fix for the new filter, which was discovered after creating the 4.1-1.4.0 release, but could be applied before announcing 4.1-1.4.0 (cf.[3b]). Please direct comments and questions to the metrics-team mailing list [4]. Cheers, iwakeh [0] https://metrics.torproject.org/onionoo.html#versions [1] https://onionoo.torproject.org/details?search=version:0.2.4&limit=10 [2] https://onionoo.torproject.org/details?search=version:0.3&limit=10 [3a] https://gitweb.torproject.org/onionoo.git/tree/CHANGELOG.md?h=onionoo-4.1-1… [3b] https://gitweb.torproject.org/onionoo.git/tree/CHANGELOG.md?h=onionoo-4.1-1… [4] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/metrics-team

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Meeting on IRC to discuss prop280 privcount stuff (Sep 12, 8pm EDT)
by Nick Mathewson 28 Aug '17

28 Aug '17

Hello! On #tor-dev at 8pm EDT on Tuesday Sep 12 (== 00:00 Sep 13 in UTC, I think), we'll have an IRC meeting to talk about proposal 280, and integrating privcount into Tor. If you're interested, please feel free to drop by! The current draft of the proposal is at https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/280-privcount-in-t… best wisehes, -- Nick

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Proposal 281: downloading microdescriptors in bulk
by Nick Mathewson 28 Aug '17

28 Aug '17

Filename: 281-bulk-md-download.txt Title: Downloading microdescriptors in bulk Author: Nick Mathewson Created: 11-Aug-2017 Status: Draft 1. Introduction This proposal describes a ways to download more microdescriptors at a time, using fewer bytes. Right now, to download N microdescriptors, the client must send about 44*N bytes in its HTTP request. Because clients can request microdescriptors in any combination, the directory caches cannot pre-compress responses to these requests, and need to use less space-efficient on-the-fly compression algorithms. Under this proposal, clients simply say "Send me the microdescriptors I need", given what I know. 2. Combined microdescriptor downloads 2.1. By diff If a client has a consensus with base64 sha3-256 digest X, and it previously had a consensus with base64 sha3-256 digests Y then it may request all the microdescriptors listed in X but not Y, by asking for the resource: /tor/micro/diff/X/Y Clients SHOULD only ask for this resource compressed. Caches MUST NOT answer this request unless they recognize the consensus with digest X, and digest Y. digest Y. If answering, caches MUST reply with all of the microdescriptors that the cache holds that were listed by consensus X, and MUST omit all the microdescriptors that were omitted listed in consensus Y. 2.2. By consensus: If a client has fewer than NMNM% of the microdescriptors listed in a consensus X, it should fetch the resource /tor/micro/full/X Clients SHOULD only ask for this resource compressed. Caches MUST NOT answer this request unless they recognize the consensus with digest X. They should send all the microdescriptors they have that are listed in that consensus. 2.3. When to make these requests Clients should decide to use this format in preference to the old download-by-digest format if the consensus X lists their preferred directory cache as using a new DirCache subprotocol version. (See 5 below.) 3. Performance analysis This is a back-of-the-envelope analysis using a month's worth of consensus documents, and a randomly chosen sample of microdescriptors. On average, about 0.5% of the microdescriptors change between any two consensuses. Call it 50. That means 50*43 bytes == 2150 bytes to request the microdescriptors. It means ~24530 bytes of microdescriptors downloaded, compressed to ~13687 bytes by zstd. With this proposal, we're down to 86 bytes for the request, and we can precompute the compressed output, making it save to use lzma2, getting a compressed result more like 13362. It appears that this change would save about 15% for incremental microdescriptor downloads, most of that coming from the reduction in request size. For complete downloads, a complete set of microdescriptors is about 7700 microdesciptors long. That makes the total number of bytes for the requests 7700*43 == 331100 bytes. The response, if compressed with lzma instead of zstd, would fall from 1659682 to 1587804 bytes, for a total savings of 20%. 5. Compatibility Caches supporting this download protocol need to advertise support of a new DirCache subprotocol version.

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Some Tor Devs could get higher pay as PR than as programmers
by Ryan Carboni 24 Aug '17

24 Aug '17

Whenever I read something, with an open mind, but say, in a sandboxed environment (don't run your memes on root), I get impressed by arguments which convince me of things which are not true. Take for instance the following article: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-security-advisory-relay-early-traffic-… It is a self-contradictory argument, we detected these bad relays when they arrived, allowed them for 6 months. Now, what was the available prophylactic measures at the time? Alleged family greylisting wasn't available at the time, but certainly an attempt could be made to contact (presumably) a few owners of the tor relays. Although it turned out to be only one owner. I mean, people depend their lives on Tor. Can all discretionary decisions of this type be made public? Now there's also the Tor's unlike racists we value free speech. I cannot explain it, but if one replaced racists with Islamists, somehow the argument is weaker. I can't fully explain it, even though I've heard more about beheadings and defenestrations as opposed to... whatever racists do nowadays (shitpost?). It truly is a clever argument that strengthens and preserves Tor's brand identity among target demographic groups. How did Freud invent psychoanalysis? What are you doing during the idle cycles of your brain? One does not need a fancy degree to be an amateur at anything, or do you folks not call yourselves hackers?

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Draft patchset for PT2.0 support (ticket #21816)
by Robin Tarsiger 24 Aug '17

24 Aug '17

Good day, tor-dev; As some of you know, I've been working on a patchset for Tor to allow it to participate in Pluggable Transports 2.0 configuration, primarily the new JSON Parameter Block SOCKS method (at least that's what I've been calling it in the absence of a more official name), almost but not quite as described in section 3.3.4 of PT2 draft 2 [1]---i.e., basically #21816 [2]. [1] https://www.pluggabletransports.info/assets/PTSpecV2Draft2.pdf [2] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/21816 I'm attaching a draft patchset which adds this functionality, with the intent of getting feedback and making remaining cleanups or other modifications necessary to get it merged into Tor. I have successfully completed circuits through an obfs4 bridge using both obfs4proxy (PT1) and a version of shapeshifter-dispatcher (PT2) using a patched Tor. I've tried to follow the local style, but the preferred implementation strategies aren't always clear, and of course I'd appreciate any reports of other problems. A forked Git repository is also available on Bitbucket [5][6], which will be updated as I make remaining changes. [5] https://bitbucket.org/DasyatidPrime/tor-rtt2017-21816.git (Git) [6] https://bitbucket.org/DasyatidPrime/tor-rtt2017-21816/src (Web) More implementation details are below if you're interested in this; thanks for your attention. I'll try to be around on IRC more during the week, so feel free to ping me there as well. -RTT ... Details: Not visible above, related to the target functionality: - I'm assuming the SOCKS method includes a response with an analogous structure to RFC 1929; PT2 draft 2 doesn't specify one. I've cleared this with blanu, and that's intended for the next draft of the PT2 specification. - Similarly, the length prefix is in fact big-endian; the example in PT2 draft 2 is wrong, though the text is correct. - We're looking into getting an IANA assignment for the method number. Technically this probably meets the requirements for the private use block, but I feel like interop might be easier later on, and it could simplify code paths in places to have a registered number (mainly if it's possible to decouple the method negotiation from the configuration-version plumbing). I believe this is still in limbo. - For the PT2 side, I've been testing against my branch of shapeshifter-dispatcher [3] compiled with my branch of shapeshifter-ipc [4] since there were some breaking changes to Shapeshifter upstream which were otherwise preventing it from interoperating with Tor. I'm planning to help merge fixes into Shapeshifter upstream as I can; it's my current understanding that there aren't any other PT2 managed transport implementations to test against. [3] https://github.com/OperatorFoundation/shapeshifter-dispatcher/tree/rtt2017 [4] https://github.com/OperatorFoundation/shapeshifter-ipc/tree/rtt2017 Issues on my radar currently (comments appreciated): - We probably want unit tests for the (limited) JSON encoding functions, and for the factored-out RFC 1929 encoding functions. Anything else that looks feasibly testable here? - It's not clear to me whether negotiating a PT2 configuration version still allows PT1-style RFC 1929 parameter encoding so that managed transports can support the new configuration version and the new SOCKS method separately. I've assumed it might be possible, so far, but that's not being tested against anything. - I currently restrict parameters to ASCII to avoid either writing a JSON encoder that can spit out invalid JSON or writing a JSON encoder that has to validate incoming UTF-8. The impression I've gotten is that this is probably okay, but if there are counter- examples, I can put in UTF-8 passthrough. - The commit sequence isn't the cleanest. How high a priority is it to reorder/combine patch hunks to make a cleaner one? - We still need a 'changes' file. (What would be an appropriate heading for this? Is this a minor feature, for instance?) A few other questions: - Is there an effective way of doing automated testing of the SOCKS state machine currently in Tor? I didn't see anything obvious in the test directory. This seems like the most fragile part, especially since both the original and modified versions are not very explicit in their state machine nature and are split between multiple files. - Can there ever be more than one managed_proxy_t to a transport name? More generally, is there a relational diagram of the main Tor data structures somewhere? A lot of the way the plumbing for state and configuration information is set up feels kind of fragile.

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Tor and IP2Location LITE
by KL Liew 24 Aug '17

24 Aug '17

All, My name is Kim, the founder of IP2Location, a geolocation service provider since 2002. It looks like Tor is looking to review other providers for GeoIP service while I was reading one of a meeting minute for a meeting back in March 2017. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/meetings/2017Amsterdam/No… We are very interested in contributing to Tor and work on this matter. Tor can host and integrate IP2Location LITE (http://lite.ip2location.com) into their application. IP2Location has programming libraries in most languages. We can also work with developers if there is any technical issues. In term of accuracy, you can find the latest research paper published by TUM. IP2Location has good accuracy as reported in Table V. Title : HLOC: Hints-Based Geolocation Leveraging Multiple Measurement Frameworks Authors : Quirin Scheitle, Oliver Gasser, Patrick Sattler, Georg Carle from Technical University of Munich (TUM) PDF Access : https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.09331.pdf Let me know if there is any questions. - Kim

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Re: [tor-dev] tor-dev Digest, Vol 79, Issue 4
by John kongtcheu 21 Aug '17

21 Aug '17

Hello Tor developers, I am interested in becoming an open source contributor for Tor, but I don't know where to start some guidance would be appreciated. Thank you, On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 8:00 AM, <tor-dev-request(a)lists.torproject.org> wrote: > Send tor-dev mailing list submissions to > tor-dev(a)lists.torproject.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > tor-dev-request(a)lists.torproject.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > tor-dev-owner(a)lists.torproject.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of tor-dev digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Proposal 281: downloading microdescriptors in bulk > (Nick Mathewson) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 13:36:00 -0400 > From: Nick Mathewson <nickm(a)torproject.org> > To: tor-dev(a)lists.torproject.org > Subject: [tor-dev] Proposal 281: downloading microdescriptors in bulk > Message-ID: > <CAKDKvux=eJBh_JsEeiqnhbEbcgRVeMRrbm2G7itZ8kX > y4+M26A(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Filename: 281-bulk-md-download.txt > Title: Downloading microdescriptors in bulk > Author: Nick Mathewson > Created: 11-Aug-2017 > Status: Draft > > 1. Introduction > > This proposal describes a ways to download more microdescriptors > at a time, using fewer bytes. > > Right now, to download N microdescriptors, the client must send > about 44*N bytes in its HTTP request. Because clients can request > microdescriptors in any combination, the directory caches cannot > pre-compress responses to these requests, and need to use less > space-efficient on-the-fly compression algorithms. > > Under this proposal, clients simply say "Send me the > microdescriptors I need", given what I know. > > 2. Combined microdescriptor downloads > > 2.1. By diff > > If a client has a consensus with base64 sha3-256 digest X, and it > previously had a consensus with base64 sha3-256 digests Y then > it may request all the microdescriptors listed in X but not Y, > by asking for the resource: > /tor/micro/diff/X/Y > > Clients SHOULD only ask for this resource compressed. > > Caches MUST NOT answer this request unless they recognize the > consensus with digest X, and digest Y. > digest Y. If answering, caches MUST reply with all of the > microdescriptors that the cache holds that were listed by > consensus X, and MUST omit all the microdescriptors that were > omitted listed in consensus Y. > > 2.2. By consensus: > > If a client has fewer than NMNM% of the microdescriptors listed in a > consensus X, it should fetch the resource > /tor/micro/full/X > > Clients SHOULD only ask for this resource compressed. > > Caches MUST NOT answer this request unless they recognize the > consensus with digest X. They should send all the microdescriptors > they have that are listed in that consensus. > > 2.3. When to make these requests > > Clients should decide to use this format in preference to the > old download-by-digest format if the consensus X lists their > preferred directory cache as using a new DirCache subprotocol > version. (See 5 below.) > > 3. Performance analysis > > This is a back-of-the-envelope analysis using a month's worth of > consensus documents, and a randomly chosen sample of > microdescriptors. > > > On average, about 0.5% of the microdescriptors change between any > two consensuses. Call it 50. That means 50*43 bytes == 2150 > bytes to request the microdescriptors. It means ~24530 bytes of > microdescriptors downloaded, compressed to ~13687 bytes by zstd. > > With this proposal, we're down to 86 bytes for the request, and we > can precompute the compressed output, making it save to use lzma2, > getting a compressed result more like 13362. > > It appears that this change would save about 15% for incremental > microdescriptor downloads, most of that coming from the reduction > in request size. > > For complete downloads, a complete set of microdescriptors is about > 7700 microdesciptors long. That makes the total number of bytes > for the requests 7700*43 == 331100 bytes. The response, if > compressed with lzma instead of zstd, would fall from 1659682 to > 1587804 bytes, for a total savings of 20%. > > > 5. Compatibility > > Caches supporting this download protocol need to advertise > support of a new DirCache subprotocol version. > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > tor-dev mailing list > tor-dev(a)lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev > > > ------------------------------ > > End of tor-dev Digest, Vol 79, Issue 4 > ************************************** >

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Re: [tor-dev] Feature Request: please consider ship default, Tor bridges
by iry 19 Aug '17

19 Aug '17

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Roger: > On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 07:57:53PM +0000, iry wrote: >> Btw, Collateral Freedom seems to be one of the most effective >> ways to circumvent Internet censorship in China. Circumvention >> tools that depend on Collateral Freedom usually works fine, >> including meek, lantern, psiphon3 etc. Therefore, I see a lot of >> potential work which may benefit the Internet freedom in China. >> For example: 1. package meek into Debian 2. host (part of the) >> BridgeDB mirror on Github or AWS 3. #22402: >> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/22402 > Some hopefully useful thoughts along these lines: > Hi Roger! Thank you for sharing your insights! > A) Most places around the world that need bridges these days need > pluggable transport bridges, not just vanilla bridges. So if we > want to bundle bridge addresses, we should bundle PT bridge > addresses. > I agree! This also makes me think about a small potential improvement on the design of BridgeDB web. When users click the big "Just give me some bridge" on https://bridges.torproject.org/options , they will be provided with vanilla bridges instead of obfs4 bridges. However, those users who choose not to use "Advanced Options" are most likely to be inexperienced and have no idea on what obfd4, PT etc are. Therefore, is it a good idea to provide obfs4 bridges, rather than vanilla ones, in "Just give me some bridge" for better usability and higher success rate? > B) ...and that means we need to make sure that those PTs are well > packaged in Debian too, since the Tor deb by itself would not be > able to use them. > Agreed. I can help to report a bug against obfs4proxy on Debian BTS when the idea is mature. > C) I wonder if we could use the new %include torrc directive in > this situation: https://bugs.torproject.org/1922 I don't have a say on the final decision, but this is also what I am thinking about:> 3. "Bridge" + plain text which is ready to be appended to a torrc file > or to be one of the torrc files in /etc/torrc.d/ (or whatever > torrc.d path Debain decides to use) > That is, when you apt-get install obfs4proxy, is that the right > time to populate /etc/torrc.d/obfs4-bridges with some (probably > commented out to start) lines that let you use those bridges if > you want? How about not commenting out the bridge info as the switch? Instead, user who would like to use bridge can comment out or add the following two lines in /etc/tor/torrc: #UseBridges 1 #ClientTransportPlugin obfs4 exec /usr/bin/obfs4proxy I have being considering /etc/torrc.d/ as a place to store all the available settings and considering /etc/tor/torrc as a panel that let user decide what they would like to enable and disable. But I am not sure if this is a good way to think about the relationship between /etc/tor/torrc and /etc/torrc.d/ One thing I am concerned about is, when applying the method above, how can user choose different PTs in the future? For example, when meek in packaged into Debian, the meek package will probably also have a /etc/torrc.d/meek-bridges file. Can we just choose to use obfs4 or meek in /etc/tor/torrc by switching between the following two lines? #ClientTransportPlugin obfs4 exec /usr/bin/obfs4proxy #ClientTransportPlugin meek exec /usr/bin/meek-client (I can test with that, but people who is familiar with the mechanism behind it can probably answer that.) Best, iry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJZmHZUAAoJEKFLTbxtzdU8Y2gP+wfDoSOTprVqe4rByzHVhUup LXvy4WnfHeUq03t+H8W5QwJCPdsFssFZae/EsfUU5Q490GqhAFryi8rHmOHluSGl FmX9SIxQXT3RV7iEFN7w4qKqYHLEKrRTklWOLrDauHZe3eJEUyn49VCROtBat88Y bdnrav4D443fFD/ugk8C3K5u4oNEWgtaq9natsLkPFbXpNcB06gd/S23Vj4VsOP0 +FUmIHmtzzMk0iTAVjGrW8X/z6/lyqk6Nj/lvwfNhdIJ5gbk5F848sl71VBeK3of Q7rdCjglZ3/tPRfrE+d40cfQWmOpw7doozC7LKdDbxCtx/LJ0WFq2PvwmO+uUFOG 3QMAV0w58JWsUsLW80ifcx7T+0O7QeAMASqWqKva7d1Y2PgqNCJfDJDHOX/KuEy3 TUi8o5WkIUUtyPaMwnYXW9VkaEKIHBXxfjYBwg0llfGU9HKJmTj+yCrMMHB2t0m0 OlZUFx9E7U11mhWzGM64sICHuob8VjwsLgLPMJc1+ocDobo0HrJr1ZtWmMZScp60 SpK35EwU8jKZJTSXtI/SKtDdHGhGmxm4NvLy26TWSqHbEzlcelK+yqkifnLHr3tb we61NdV2ZA7XCrp+o3Q7NprMjRGtaP1aze2bQTjJfkLDdrShkZFw3/hYk75cRpvk tkf7Tl4oLtoa5lnNhB/S =sP5G -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Feature Request: please consider ship default Tor bridges
by iry 19 Aug '17

19 Aug '17

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hello Tor people! A set of Tor bridges are shipped with Tor browser bundle[0], helping users in Tor-censored area to connection to the Tor network. Since system Tor users may also face the censorship problem, shall we ship some Tor bridges along with the tor package? The request is firstly reported[0] to Debian BTS and I got the following reply by Peter: > If upstream starts shipping bridges with their Tor releases, that > would naturally result in the Tor package shipping bridges as > well. > > I do not know whether that's a good idea or not, but I don't think > deviating from upstream would be particularly worthwhile. The following is some related information which may help the future discussion: The possible formats to hold those bridges can be: 1. JSON which is also the way tor-connection-wizard used so far[1]; 2. plain text which is the same formatt given by the BridgeDB[2] by Tor Project; 3. "Bridge" + plain text which is ready to be appended to a torrc file or to be one of the torrc files in /etc/torrc.d/ (or whatever torrc.d path Debain decides to use) The default bridge shipped with tor package should be exactly the same bridges contained in bridge_prefs.js[0] shipped with the latest stable TBB. This is because: 1. The servers hosting default bridges are set up for huge amount of traffic; 2. The servers hosting default bridges are probably audited by TPO for better security; 3. Using a different set of bridges will distinguish the anon-connection-wizard bridge users from the TBB bridge users, which compromises their anonymity. What do you think? Looking forward to hearing your insights! Best, iry [0]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=872456 [1]: https://gitweb.torproject.org/builders/tor-browser-bundle.git/tree/Bundl e-Data/PTConfigs/bridge_prefs.js?h=7.5a3-linux [2]: https://github.com/irykoon/anon-connection-wizard/blob/master/usr/share/ anon-connection-wizard/bridges_default [3]: https://bridges.torproject.org/options Best, iry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJZldAaAAoJEKFLTbxtzdU8QHEP/0DyAtD95JOKEkDulsyuuVfx uYT+5WGaRSFntqRq91RcNkHLHDy61JtLXhr5VIcz/tYIIe3TVZhI9idqbPgJMZc+ xxS/4r5qhkkcJ5X99xo7Jerz/0Y/4CKboREAkSstz15RL3FNLF6mwFZgWsiZ4rMa SkruE8qchz1KIUuWKZyx3HioloZgIHQkvqQ6fE4asGIs8gnaKeofpSwRGq85/Vcq T8D0WTqCFweLFaYzCWMtO7bVKXrfqC8rGLesLPJhxZbl0MJ3H/5TdvbPHn6VwRH0 AZCT5q7A+0fC/+HHwsn9SFhMo0TaIOtZBonOH58X3OEamKrmJOwqESvCPqILtMC3 pU2PtoOSDQEd684b2hxoR+0uRMOew+CJ+U7lzyh7yYU9x3jv//9CsFGcKcD+FoFG zrkDPJ75uzYGJjHZUFpnk8opwVy49TghYiVvjwm9/PXXQVvEiCGNEt7W1wTHX3Ja DygMsGN8GXg6AqWRESg4NcI8N/4U2EUEt+Li45u0qsTJ/uYmfamsC/WoacfjznaD JQVKjJQlhuk7F3qUPuxtxaGCLopLJd/uAUyYaI/HPrFeR3uIawSzCW9prTkk/E7n wAop3mErdp6JYnTacUb4pcYINIQf1c7FymbngrAmJzljxH4apZpBPugitAYvtJ2X 2OBJpUV0CtEJH3poicdq =oct9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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